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Lamentations 4:20

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life,

was captured in their pits.

We had said of him,

“Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

Lamentations 4:20 BSB

Lamentations 4:20 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 2:7 (4 votes) and 2 Samuel 1:14 (4 votes). 30 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 2 to Mark 14.

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Which verses does Lamentations 4:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Genesis 2:74 votes

    Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

  2. 2 Samuel 1:144 votes

    So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

  3. 2 Samuel 19:214 votes

    But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”

  4. Jeremiah 39:54 votes

    But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

  5. Ezekiel 12:134 votes

    But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

  6. 2 Samuel 1:213 votes

    O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.

  7. Psalm 89:20–213 votes

    I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him. My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.

  8. Lamentations 2:93 votes

    Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

  9. Ezekiel 17:183 votes

    He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’

  10. Genesis 44:302 votes

    So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

  11. 1 Samuel 12:32 votes
  12. 1 Samuel 16:62 votes
  13. 1 Samuel 24:62 votes
  14. 1 Samuel 24:102 votes
  15. 1 Samuel 26:92 votes
  16. 1 Samuel 26:162 votes
  17. 2 Samuel 18:32 votes
  18. Jeremiah 52:82 votes
  19. Ezekiel 19:4–82 votes
  20. 1 Samuel 12:51 vote

Which verses point to Lamentations 4:20?

The 10 strongest of 30.